Why Actors Take Playing The Joker So Seriously

The Dark Knight came out in 2008 and Heath Ledger surprised everyone as the Joker, everyone loved it and then in 2009 Todd Phillips did the Hangover and that would be cool too if I had told you back then that 10 years later Todd Phillips . you would go on to make a standalone Joker movie, you would have said that, that's an incredibly accurate prediction, why did you come into my house to tell me this? Well, now that it's happened, I didn't come into your house, but the Hangover director did. an old school road trip has made a very serious movie about one of the most popular comic book villains of all time, Joaquin Phoenix

take

s on the role and judging by the reviews he has done a very good job, it is A great movie though to be fair.

According to many other reviews, this is a horrible movie with no redeeming qualities, it's a bit divisive, there haven't been many

actors

who have played this character on the big screen, but every time someone does it, it looks like a huge undertaking, there's a certain mysticism to

playing

this character almost like he's cursed like oh, if you play the Joker you're going to go a little crazy, you better watch out, there's really no other comic book villain that has this kind of reputation where, oh man This actor better

take

this

seriously

and prepare really hard, like I don't think Corey Stoll has gone too crazy with his preparation to play Yellowjacket and Ant-Man.

You know, he said, "Okay, I'll put on a suit and watch." greedy that works and Marvel was like yeah do whatever you want honestly we're going to give you CGI powers similar to Ant-Man and that's all it's going to be so today I want to see what it is. about this character that has given him this reputation that makes fans obsessed with how

seriously

an actor takes the role, do you know how they prepared, will they ever be the same again?, how did the Joker destroy his life? It's strange because it wasn't like that. always like that, let's back up a little bit, okay, follow me, come on, so Joker was created in 1940 by Bill Finger Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson, they argued over the credits with each other, but I won't get into that, I'm crediting.

Good job to you all and Joker wasn't played by an actor until the 1960s, when he was played by this guy, Cesar Romero, and Cesar didn't really take this role seriously, he certainly didn't seem to feel any pressure. comic fans because he even shaved his mustache, this guy really liked his mustache, it was part of his signature look, so he was like, "No, I'm not going to paint over that thing, literally no one will even notice." will care and you can't." I really blame him for not taking it seriously, it wasn't serious, it was all super cheesy.

I mean, Joker challenged Batman to a surfing competition once. I don't remember that happening in The Dark Knight, so what happened? How do we get there? a guy who didn't bother to shave for the role of the Joker and is freaking out about how intense a Joker actor must be. Enter Jack Nicholson. I'm not going to tell him to come in. He's not here with me. That's just an expression. apparently many

actors

were considered for the role in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman movie, David Bowie Willem Dafoe, who could have been good Tim Curry ended up

playing

a clown anyway, even Robin Williams was considered, but the role went to Jack Nicholson, which he had done.

It was pretty clear, nine years earlier, that he had the ability to go a little crazy and that he was one of the coolest movie stars of his generation, so this was perfect casting for the kind of Joker that Tim Burton wanted to create. kind of like a wise Joker like a cool old gangster sort of Joker was obsessed with fame and fortune in fashion Nicholson's mix of cool and a little crazy fit the bill perfectly, the thing is, although Jack Nicholson didn't really he lost himself in the role of the Joker or something, it was a version of the character that was dubbed in a way that was perfect for him to play, tailored to his strengths as an actor and his style and his mannerisms and even hell. . his public persona, if we're honest, I don't want to go as far as to say that he was playing himself, but in a way he was playing himself, so in terms of preparing for the role, apparently he didn't really prepare for it. , in fact, Michael.

Keaton told David Letterman that one time when he and Jack Nicholson were sitting in their costumes, Jack looked at him and said, "We should let the Wardrobe do the acting team and people loved it so, so, so much, and that's what really started this whole thing for almost two decades, no one else played the character in live action Mark Hamill was doing amazing things on the animated side of things, but it wasn't until now that Heath Ledger would play the character that people. He even considered that someone else could play him and people were angry. Jack Nicholson's Joker was so iconic and synonymous with him there was a lot of outrage, it's like in ten years they decided to cast Zac Efron as Ironman, this handsome guy who he is. known mainly for romantic comedies and stuff, all of a sudden he plays Tony Stark, people wouldn't be happy at all, they'd be like No Robert Downey Jr is Tony Stark, I don't like the change, that doesn't mean Zac Efron wanted it or wanted it. be a good Iron Man, I mean, I probably wouldn't, I guess, but the point is you can see why people were a little up in arms about it.

Heath Ledger playing the Joker, so people expected this to not be good, that's a lot of pressure and that's a difficult starting point for an actor, you have to imagine that luckily for him he was cast before the script was written, so Heath Ledger had a lot. of time to develop and prepare this character, make it as good as possible and at the same time keep it different from the iconic version. People know this was important to Christopher Nolan; By now you've heard the stories about Heath Ledger locking himself in a hotel. room for a month to get into the right mindset and the diary he kept and all that stuff, and when the trailer for The Dark Knight finally came out in December 2007 and people saw where it took the character, they felt like holy mackerel, it's say, me.

I didn't expect that to be incredibly Wow, good job and then of course, tragically, just a month later, Heath Ledger passed away, the official ruling was that it was an accidental overdose of some of his co-stars in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, that I was filming. At the time he said that Heath Ledger had a type of walking pneumonia, he had a lot of trouble sleeping and was mixing sleeping pills and prescription medications as a desperate way to get some sleep. His sister, who was one of the last people. When talking to him, he said that he was in a very good mood and showed no signs of depression or anything, although apparently she warned him not to mix up his recipes, so the whole thing really seemed like a tragic accident, but that's not it. really the story that the press published.

When word got out about how much he had prepared for the role in the dark, he locked himself in a hotel room and the role drove him crazy. The movie ended and he was still being chased by the Joker. He depressed him. He just went too deep. the darkness of the character and drove him crazy in real life, the media took what by most true accounts was a tragic accident and transformed it into something that was tangled in a comic book role for which yes, he did a lot of preparation , but According to the people who were there, he had a great time making that movie.

Derek Murray co-directed a documentary called I Am Heath Ledger and spoke to many people close to Heath even during the production of The Dark Knight. quote that he had a great time doing it, the Joker was a role that captivated him, he was proud of it, but that version of events is much less interesting to people than the version where the Joker drives him into depression, so That dark version is the one we hear the most and associate with Heath Ledger's Joker and so, where did that leave Jared Leto when he was offered the role of the Joker years later, does he have to take on this role that doesn't count the first time?

César Romero was played iconically by Jack Nicholson and later played iconically again by Heath Ledger. I mean, that's crazy, it's like if you start an IT job and your boss says, hey, there's no pressure except the guy who had this job before. You were Steve Jobs and the guy before him was Bill Gates, so good luck buddy, all eyes were on Jared Leto and most of those eyes weren't happy, so he gets into character in his own way, What option did I have? Apparently he never broke up. The character on the set during filming met with real-life psychopaths.

He sent a star disgusting gifts like the Joker. He fully committed to it because after the last two performances of the role people wouldn't settle for anything less now, unfortunately for him, the character came in. a direction that people didn't like very much at all, certain decisions were made that were questionable. I can't say I like the tattoos lol nor the damaged tattoo, it's not cool, but Jared Leto definitely felt that pressure and definitely put in a lot of work to prepare for the role that after two legendary incarnations and a lot of dramatization by the press has acquired this kind of prestige, so now here we are with Mr.

Phoenix, of course the question on people's minds is, well, how did you prepare for the role? What did he do when we saw the first images of him as the character? It was clear that he had lost a lot of weight. People were like, “Oh boy, another one.” actor diving into the dark dark role oh man this is going to lose his mind it already looks like he's going to be scarred for life this is going to be crazy buckle up except it's not, it's not that I'm crazy guys, Don't get me wrong, he lost 52 pounds playing the character and that's super impressive dedication, but he's an actor who's played with his weight before and he's far from the only one to do that and apparently he actually wanted the Joker to be fat.

Todd Phillips is the one who asked for it. a super slim version Phoenix also read some books about political assassinations and studied videos of people suffering from pathological laughter which is pretty standard prepared by Hollywood standards an actor literally prepares that's the name of a seminal book on acting he did what He's supposed to be an actor to do and sure he apparently stormed off the set several times, but other than that, he's been pretty explicit about enjoying the process of filming Joker and all that, still people are fascinated with searching for land on the effect the role must have had on him, what dark stories. of the set, are we missing it?

Will he be marked for life? There's this whole narrative about playing the Joker that came out of Heath Ledger's passing and the way he introduced himself to everyone. People loved the Joker and that's great, but me. "I don't think we should put this kind of pressure on the actors playing the character, who are supposed to be very methodical and if they don't go into a psychiatric ward after production, then they clearly have." I did a good job, so I tell everyone to relax a little, you know, let's put a smile on that face, except be happy, in a really happy way, thanks for watching that video everyone.

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